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We launched some updates to the Discover feed today. This likely won't affect existing users as much, but for new users it's a big improvement. Basically: the ML team managed to build an improved topic classifier, which means Discover is better at responding to selected interests.

The classifier uses BLIP2 embeddings with training on labels which we manually created (yep). The ML team has the exact numbers but anecdotally it seems to have jumped from 40%ish accuracy to more like 90%. I'm surprised at how much more consistent it is.

There's still a lot to be done, but I've promised to share details as we develop -- both for users and for other devs -- and I'm gonna deliver on that promise! I think once we feel like we're at our total quality targets, we'll share more detailed writeups on how it works

We literally just need it to be chronological It doesn't fucking matter if it gets to us because we like it It matters that we see what gets posted in real time We have the very real problem of developers trained by Nazis to fix

This should never happen For any reason Ever

meaning less furries posts?

Thanks for the update, sounds like a significant improvement. Any idea how much this impacts racial / gender / etc biases?

Why would it? Is there any race/gender based topic?

Can you share more on what the labels are? Is it multiple categories like "politics", "art", "anime"?

If you go to Explore you should have a tool at the top for editing your interests. (If you dismissed it, then check somewhere in your settings I forget where) The interests are 1:1 to the topics right now

Just curious why we can’t upload our own animated gifs, and like… have them animate. Can’t be a technical thing, y’all are too smart for that. So maybe a storage volume issue, or something contractual with Giphy that’s limiting implementation? 🤷🏼‍♀️ Just idle curiosity.

try using the video upload